List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword
William M. Kelso
Chapter 1. Introduction to St. Mary’s City History and Archaeology
Henry M. Miller
Part 1. Discovering the Past: New Approaches and Methods
Chapter 2. From Humus Mold to Stout Building: Reverse Engineering Post-in-the-Ground Structures
Garry Wheeler Stone and Alexander H. Morrison II
Chapter 3. Soil Analysis at the St. John’s Site: An Earthy View of Early Maryland Revisited
Silas D. Hurry and Robert Winston Keeler
Chapter 4. Finding Ephemeral Homes of the Enslaved: A St. Mary’s City Example
Ruth M. Mitchell and Henry M. Miller
Chapter 5. Ceramic Studies at Maryland’s First Capital
Silas D. Hurry
Part 2. Studies of Seventeenth-Century St. Mary’s City
Chapter 6. The Archaeology of Maryland Indians at St. Mary’s City and the Interactions of Cultures
Henry M. Miller and Silas D. Hurry
Chapter 7. St. John’s Freehold: The Archaeology of One of Maryland’s Earliest Plantations
Ruth M. Mitchell, Henry M. Miller, and Garry Wheeler Stone
Chapter 8. “Master Pope’s Fort”: Archaeological Investigations of a Fortification of the English Civil Wars in St. Mary’s City
Charles H. Fithian
Chapter 9. Community, Identity, and Public Spaces: The Calvert House as the First State House of Maryland
Wesley R. Willoughby
Chapter 10. “The most bewitching Game”: Games and Entertainment in Seventeenth-Century St. Mary’s City
Travis G. Parno and Timothy B. Riordan
Chapter 11. The Lead Coffins of St. Mary’s: Burials of the Elite in the Early Chesapeake
Karin S. Bruwelheide, Henry M. Miller, Douglas W. Owsley, and Timothy B. Riordan
Part 3. After the Capital: The Archaeology of St. Mary’s City in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 12. The Captain John Hicks House Site and the Eighteenth-Century Townlands Community
Garry Wheeler Stone and Stephen S. Israel
Chapter 13. A Second Look at the Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Tabbs Purchase and the Tenants Who Used Them
George L. Miller
Chapter 14. The Archaeology of African American Mobility in Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century St. Mary’s City
Terry Peterkin Brock
Chapter 15. “Establish on that sacred spot a female seminary”: Archaeology of St. Mary’s Female Seminary
Michelle Sivilich, Travis G. Parno, Ruth M. Mitchell, and Donald L. Winter
Chapter 16. Preserving the Cultural Memory of a Place
Travis G. Parno and Henry M. Miller
References
List of Contributors
Index
